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Be aware of "update bug" If Homebrew was updated on Aug 10-11th 2016 and brew update always says "Already up-to-date". you need to run: ``` cd "$(brew --repo)" && git fetch && git reset --hard origin/master && brew update ``` I had to.
I have a stupid question. Is there a dogmatic way of listing installed things and sharing that with other brew? For example, I now list with brew list into a file and edit the file so that whole list is a big brew install. That way if I reinstall OS or go to another I can have same things.
Not sure if that's what you wanna do but you could do : "ls /usr/local/Cellar/ | cat >> myInstall.txt"
cat brew_install.txt
It lists directly from brew, prepends brew install and then replaces all newlines with a space and outputs to brew_install.txt
Brew is awesome. Note though that it gathers anonymous aggregate user behaviour analytics and reports to Google Analytics, see https://git.io/brew-analytics . You can opt out with brew analytics off
Brew is awesome. Note though that it gathers anonymous aggregate user behaviour analytics and reports to Google Analytics, see https://git.io/brew-analytics . You can opt out with brew analytics off
That's obviously fine for you to do but it's worth noting that we remove software that no-one uses where "no-one" is defined by "no-one using analytics". That's actually our main use-case for analytics.
I'm excited about Homebrew potentially coming to Linux. When I first started using OS X more regularly, I was surprised by how better an experience OS X + Homebrew is compared to Ubuntu/Debian repositories + PPAs/third-party repositories.
Why? By which I mean that apt is fantastic AFAICT and totally integrated into Ubuntu and Debian. Why would you want a third party package manager?
brew update brew --version
(if update errors prevented the migration)
As a user, Homebrew is a great experience. As a package maintainer, though, one thing surprised me: you can't make your package depend on a specific version -- even a major version -- of a library. So if MyApp uses YourLib 1.0, everything is fine until YourLib 2.0 comes out, at which point users doing `brew install myapp` will start getting cryptic compiler errors. I have no choice but to drop whatever I'm doing and…
How does Homebrew compare to pkgsrc these days?
I have a stupid question. Is there a dogmatic way of listing installed things and sharing that with other brew? For example, I now list with brew list into a file and edit the file so that whole list is a big brew install. That way if I reinstall OS or go to another I can have same things.
Not sure if that's what you wanna do but you could do : "ls /usr/local/Cellar/ | cat >> myInstall.txt"
brew update brew --version